Word: bidden
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Singly the bidden callers were ushered in to blandly smiling Col. Lindbergh, who addressed each in private about as follows...
Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them...
Sped six years. The new Prime Minister was that savage atheist M. Georges Clemenceau, well called "The Tiger." One day Catholic Foch was bidden to luncheon by Atheist Clemenceau. They merely chatted until the General reached the point of raising and sipping his demitasse, when The Tiger suddenly flashed, "You are the new Director of the War College! I have just signed your appointment...
...time of Confucius (550-478 B.C.) and long before, this has been so. But last week the kinetic, iconoclastic new Nationalist Government issued a proclamation shattering to Chinese morals. Acts of filial piety were declared to be "no longer meritorious but unworthy," and celibate widows were bidden to eschew the "outworn mandate of mere superstition...
...walk with a Cane or appear out of his Room without being fully dressed and with his Hat," Later the headpiece comes in for further attention: "When ever a Freshman speaks to a Superior is spoken to by one he shall keep his hat off until he is bidden...